अय्यूब 30
1 १ “परन्तु अब जिनकी आयु मुझसे कम है, वे मेरी हँसी करते हैं, वे जिनके पिताओं को मैं अपनी भेड़-बकरियों के कुत्तों के काम के योग्य भी न जानता था।
But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in [their] turn, whose fathers I set at nothing; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.
Yes, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term [of life] was lost.
3 ३ वे दरिद्रता और काल के मारे दुबले पड़े हुए हैं, वे अंधेरे और सुनसान स्थानों में सुखी धूल फाँकते हैं।
[One is] childless in lack and famine, [such as] they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
Who compass the salt places on the sounding [shore], who had salt [herbs] for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in lack of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.
Thieves have risen up against me,
whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.
They will cry out among the rustling [bushes].
[They are] sons of fools and vile men, [whose] name and glory [are] quenched from off the earth.
But now I am their music, and they have me for a byword.
And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.
11 ११ परमेश्वर ने जो मेरी रस्सी खोलकर मुझे दुःख दिया है, इसलिए वे मेरे सामने मुँह में लगाम नहीं रखते।
For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
12 १२ मेरी दाहिनी ओर बाज़ारू लोग उठ खड़े होते हैं, वे मेरे पाँव सरका देते हैं, और मेरे नाश के लिये अपने उपाय बाँधते हैं।
They have risen up against [me] on the right hand of [their] offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.
And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
15 १५ मुझ में घबराहट छा गई है, और मेरा रईसपन मानो वायु से उड़ाया गया है, और मेरा कुशल बादल के समान जाता रहा।
My pains return upon [me]; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.
Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.
And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
18 १८ मेरी बीमारी की बहुतायत से मेरे वस्त्र का रूप बदल गया है; वह मेरे कुर्त्ते के गले के समान मुझसे लिपटी हुई है।
With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
And you have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.
20 २० मैं तेरी दुहाई देता हूँ, परन्तु तू नहीं सुनता; मैं खड़ा होता हूँ परन्तु तू मेरी ओर घूरने लगता है।
And I have cried to you, but you hear me not: but they stood still, and observed me.
They attacked me also without mercy: you have scourged me with a strong hand.
And you have put me to grief, and have cast me away from safety.
23 २३ हाँ, मुझे निश्चय है, कि तू मुझे मृत्यु के वश में कर देगा, और उस घर में पहुँचाएगा, जो सब जीवित प्राणियों के लिये ठहराया गया है।
For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.
Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
25 २५ क्या मैं उसके लिये रोता नहीं था, जिसके दुर्दिन आते थे? और क्या दरिद्र जन के कारण मैं प्राण में दुःखित न होता था?
Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
26 २६ जब मैं कुशल का मार्ग जोहता था, तब विपत्ति आ पड़ी; और जब मैं उजियाले की आशा लगाए था, तब अंधकार छा गया।
But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
28 २८ मैं शोक का पहरावा पहने हुए मानो बिना सूर्य की गर्मी के काला हो गया हूँ। और मैं सभा में खड़ा होकर सहायता के लिये दुहाई देता हूँ।
I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
